TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian parliament’s Health Commission plans to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in the country, the spokesman for the commission said on Monday.
Muhammad Naeem Aminfar said the members of the panel plan to hold the meeting on Tuesday to examine CCHF cases in the country.
Due to the high human and animal mortality rates, the disease can have serious consequences, he said.
The parliamentarian went on to say that some MPs representing cities in which CCHF cases have been observed have submitted some reports on the situation to the presiding board of the Health Commission.
According to Muhammad Mehdi Gouya, the director of Health Ministry’s Center for Communicable Disease Control, the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever has caused the deaths of three people in Iran since the beginning of the current Iranian year on March 21.
In 2015, the disease took the lives of three people in Iran.